Art
Latinx and Filipinx Diasporas Unite in a New Exhibition
Through their personal histories, artists participating in the exhibition Cultural Cousins highlight the unremarked kinship between the two communities in an artist talk.
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Melania Trump Gets Her First Monument, And It's Not What You'd Expect
Artist Brad Downey commissioned a Slovenian folk sculptor to create a monument with a chainsaw, calling the First Lady a "strange figure with an interesting life."
Art
Cut Canvases Give Voice to Women's Bodies
The phonetic title of Cristina Camacho's /ˈvʌlvə/ seems to capture the vulva just before it solidifies into a signifier, renewing its possibilities of meaning production.
Opinion
A Controversial WPA Mural Is a Litmus Test for the Longevity of Public Art
Victor Arnautoff's "The Life of George Washington" was painted at George Washington High School in 1934 under the Works Progress Administration. Recently, the school board voted unanimously to paint over it, becoming a contentious topic on public art preservation.
Film
An Overlooked Gem from the New Queer Cinema Wave Imagines John Lennon on Holiday
1991's The Hours and Times, recently restored and now available to stream, is part of a tradition of queer films recontextualizing what we think we know about history.
Interview
JR's Digital Mural Features 1,200 San Franciscans, Telling a Story of a Diverse City
The artist says he wants the 107-feet-long mural at SFMOMA to get people to interact with one another.
Announcement
San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns For Its Fourth Year
The Bay Area art book fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project from Friday, July 19 to Sunday July 21. Admission is free.
Art
Interpreting the Beasts of the Middle Ages
Animals were an important part of the everyday lives of ancient and medieval people, whether they were real or imagined, and their literary use in the Middle Ages formed a moral language.
Books
A Chronicle of 100 Contemporary Artists Who Use Textiles
With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.
Art
Required Reading
This week, "Pavilion Le Corbusier" reopens in Zurich, more critics of color, genocide scholars rebuke the Holocaust Museum, a list of the concentration camps, and more.
Art
Navigating the Overload at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale’s official exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times, presents art that speaks to the present, not in the direct fashion of journalism, but in ways that can challenge existing habits of thought.
Art
Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future
Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.